ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the closet a hoary old dinosaur of a theory of implicit memory. A central focus of memory research for the past 15 years has been implicit memory its varieties of forms and their inter-correlations, its properties and functional relationships to experimental variables, and especially the relation of implicit to explicit memory. The chapter discusses how awareness enters into the models account of explicit memories. It subscribes the hypothesis that global amnesia was characterised by gross impairment of the person's ability to form or consolidate novel associations, especially those to an items context of presentation. The chapter states that this simple theory will doubtless not account for all the thousands of facts known about implicit and explicit memory and the brain systems subserving them. It offers a few speculations for coordinating constructs within this theory to the brain systems underlying different forms of memory.
